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I personally like Apollo, and it had already built recognition, but it is now called Adobe Air. What is new in the Air beta? New features in the Adobe AIR beta include an embedded local database, PDF support, enhanced capabilities for JavaScript developers, and deeper integration with Adobe Flex. The new beta version of Adobe Read the rest…

Remember The Milk is one of the early Web 2.0 entrants that keeps innovating. I think that they were probably the first popular-non-google web applicationto go offline with Gears. They decided to take an approach similar to Google Reader’s offline model: What can I do offline? Just about everything that’s possible online with Remember The Read the rest…

Brad Neuberg and the SitePen team has been working tirelessly to get this beta out of the door. Now we have the Dojo Offline Toolkit in beta, released to the world: Dojo Offline is a free, open source toolkit that makes it easy for web applications to work offline. It consists of two pieces: a Read the rest…

The arguments around offline have been brewing for some time. DHH came out with typical flare on why offline doesn’t matter as you are either online all the time, or if you aren’t, you don’t mind it. I hope that offline matters less and less over time, but for me connectivity can be very spotty Read the rest…

Zimbra has had a local proxy solution for a long time, so it only made sense that they would innovate quickly to come up with Zimbra Desktop: Zimbra Desktop is the next generation leap forward for Web 2.0 applications- now you can have Zimbra’s Ajax-based collaboration experience online and offline. That means when you are Read the rest…

Magnetk and Joyent have created Slingshot, a tool that enables you to do offline Rails applications. It is already being touted as competition for Apollo. The model is interesting, and should be compared to solutions such as those using Dojo’s Offline Toolkit. With Dojo, you use a normal web browser, and offline starts working. With Read the rest…

Brad Neuberg keeps sprinting with his offline work for Dojo. He has just released a demo of an offline aware editor, and a release of the code itself: Weâ€™ve finished the JavaScript layer of Dojo Offline. Dojo Offline consists of two major pieces: a JavaScript API that is included with a web application, and which Read the rest…

Mozilla’s Rob O’Callahan blogged about the technologies behind yesterday’s posting on Zimbra’s off-line mode: As Chris mentioned, there are four pieces to our offline puzzle… the only really new part is using &lquot;link rel=”offline-resource”&rquot; to put resources in a persistent “offline cache” that won’t accidentally evict your application. That is quite simple and once we’re Read the rest…

Chris Double of Mozilla has posted about a proof of concept showing Zimbra working offline with Firefox. The Firefox features used to enable offline operation were: DOM Storage for storing emails and folder information. DOM Storage is an implementation of a WHATWG specification. Offline Cache. A patch is available for Firefox that adds an offline Read the rest…

Niall Kennedy has taken a look at the various local storage options from various browsers, and cross-browser in Boost Ajax performance using local storage. His article touches on the good ole cookie, Flash local Shared Object, Internet Explorer userData, and Firefox DOM Storage. He talks about pros and cons, and efforts such as dojo.storage. Conclusion Read the rest…

Brad Neuberg keeps it moving with the Dojo Offline Toolkit API. His latest work details the early API via example. The example is a web based email system, and the code using the API is below (and shows you how you would use it). The interesting news is that you can start work even without Read the rest…

Brad Neuberg created some examples of offline projects in order to find a common UI or offline web applications for the Dojo Offline Toolkit. He has put together examples for Gmail, Blogger, and a corporate portal. Gmail Example The first thing to notice is the addition of a new widget on the left-hand side of Read the rest…

Brad Neuberg has started work on the Dojo Offline Toolkit backed by the generosity of SitePen. What is the Dojo Offline Toolkit? The Dojo Offline Toolkit will be a small, cross-platform, generic download that enables web applications to work offline. Letâ€™s look at the Dojo Offline Toolkit from a userâ€™s perspective. Imagine Alex is using Read the rest…

I know that the network will catch up, but in today’s world people want to be able to access their data when they are offline, whether it be on a plane, or just when the darn cable connection does out again. Zimbra demonstrated taking their Ajax collaboration app offline today: The design goal is to Read the rest…

Scrybe is an on-line organiser that looks too good to be true, and some are dying to try. Some core features are: Offline Support: Go to “work offline” and it just works? It even synchronizers up when you get online again. Context: It knows the context it is in. Timezones: Easy to change timezones, and Read the rest…

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